Kyllan and I spent a quiet Thanksgiving at home this year. Kyllan did an amazing job with dinner and put together quite the feast for the two of us. In addition to all of the side dishes, this year Kyllan decided to cook a turkey and make carrot cake from scratch. Dinner was great and we enjoyed having a nice long weekend to ourselves.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I joined Kyllan in Dallas 1 year ago today. During the past year we only spent 3 days apart. That is a huge feat for us, considering we only spent 41 days together the previous year.
Earlier this month Kyllan and I took our nephew to the Museum of Nature and Science. We all had a great time. Our nephew taught us how to pronounce all of the complicated dinosaur names at the dinosaur exhibit. He also joined us in touching as many hands on exhibits as possible.
Pictures from our trip can be found on flickr.
The Codys would like to remind everyone to go out and vote today.
Go Jaguars!
I finally uploaded the last of our photos form Hawaii. These pictures were taken on the last day of our cruise as we returned to Honolulu. The views from the ship were absolutely amazing.
Today would have been my sister’s 33rd birthday. If you have time, please take a few minutes to visit the page we have dedicated to her memory. It contains links to various news articles covering efforts to keep Caroline’s memory alive. This year, I added a link to an article discussing the memorial service held by the University of Florida School of Medicine this past May, the 10th anniversary of her death. The Cody family is very grateful to everyone that has supported these efforts, and to you, for taking a brief moment to read about them.
The page can be found here.
Below is a picture of the Cody Family from Christmas 1999.
During the cruise, our ship spent two days docked at Nawiliwili on the island of Maui. Kyllan and I spent the first day on an amazing snorkeling trip. Swimming with and seeing the tropical fish and sea turtles was like something out of a movie. It was definitely the highlight of the trip for me. Unfortunately we didn’t have an underwater camera, so we only have a few shots on the boat. We spent day 2 of Maui at Wailea Beach. Mainly we just relaxed and enjoyed our surroundings. We did do some boogie boarding, but the waves weren’t big enough to try surfing. Later, Kyllan and I looked around the Grand Wailea, where we now plan to stay when we next visit Hawaii.
On the Big Island we docked at both Kona and Hilo. While at Kona we visited Volcanoes National Park. It was really interesting to gain an understanding of how the islands were formed and I can now tell you all about lava tubes and calderas, neither of which did I know were things before this trip. In Hilo we spent the day at beach in Anaehoomalu Bay. We did some more snorkeling and water sports, but ultimately decided to stick with the whole relaxing and doing nothing thing. And, of course, that evening Kyllan and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary.
I uploaded photos from Maui, Kona and Hilo to Flickr.
We received a request to discuss the shows we will be watching on TV this fall. There aren’t too may returning shows that I’m all that excited about. I’m concerned that several shows that I enjoyed last year may have jumped the shark. The Mentalist and Modern Family, however, are two that stand out as returning favorites. Modern Family may be the only show that Kyllan and I both genuinely like and always watch together. (I will usually watch Grey’s Anatomy with her and there are a few shows I watch that Kyllan describes “not as bad as the others” that she will watch with me.)
Of the new fall shows, I think I will check out Undercovers and Detroit 187. I wasn’t all that interested in Detroit 187 until I saw that it was being compared to the quasi-canceled Southlands, which I loved. I will probably also check out Law & Order: Los Angles. I feel obligated to watch Hawaii Five-0 remake after our trip to Hawaii. Everywhere we went tour guides were pointing out a location where the show recently shot or will be shooting. Kyllan, who is a big fan of Top Chef, has started watching Top Chef: Just Desserts.
TV guide has list of several new shows with brief descriptions here
A site with trailers for most of the new shows can be found here. Click the “view all” link at the bottom so you don’t have to scroll through each individually.